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Former president Hamid Karzai on Thursday met the Pakistani ambassador in Kabul and stressed that the two neighbouring countries should have civilised relations.

Hoda Khamosh and Mina Rafiq, two Afghan women's rights activists, told Afghanistan International that they are on a hunger strike in front of the Norwegian Parliament to demand the recognition of the gender apartheid in Afghanistan.

John Kirby, the US National Security Council spokesperson, said that the United States has not left any military equipment behind in Afghanistan.

Nooruddin Azizi, Taliban’s Minister of Commerce and Industry, said that the goods of Afghan businessmen in transit to Pakistan are on the "sensitive list".

Afghanistan has once again become a haven for global and regional terrorism, said Ahmad Massoud, the leader of National Resistance Front of Afghanistan (NRF).

On Wednesday, Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi called for the expansion of economic relations between Iran and Afghanistan.

Amir Khan Muttaqi, Taliban’s Foreign Minister, indirectly pointed to those who call for the formation of an inclusive government and said that they are creating obstacles in the way of the group’s government under this “pretext”.

On Thursday, Faiz Askaryar, former deputy commander of the Police District 8 of Mazar-e-Shairf city, was killed by armed men in the Karte Sulh area of the city.

The Taliban held a conference about "Afghanistan's commercial and economic relations" in Kabul.

On the first anniversary of the attack on the Russian embassy in Kabul, Maria Zakharova, Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, said that terrorist groups are still active in Afghanistan and that the Taliban's efforts to counter them is not enough.

The Taliban's Ministry of Interior confirmed the border skirmish between the group and the Pakistani forces in Torkham, saying that its fighters responded to the Pakistani forces' attack.

Khovar, the National Information Agency of Tajikistan, reported that three "terrorists" had been killed by the country's security forces near the Afghan border.

Local sources told Afghanistan International that Taliban forces and Pakistani border guards engaged in a gunfight at the Torkham border.

The Taliban’s Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation announced that around 2,277 Afghan refugees have returned to Afghanistan from Iran.

Khairullah Khairkhwa, Taliban’s Minister of Information and Culture, lashed out that not even a single Islamic country has recognised the government of the group in Afghanistan.

The Taliban has waged an operation on the Afghanistan Freedom Front (AFF) forces in Dawlat Shah district, after AFF’s attack on the Taliban district governor's office in Laghman province.

Continuing the hunger strike to highlight the situation of women in Afghanistan, Tamana Zaryab Paryani criticised the indifference of German politicians to the demands of the protesters and likened it to "murder”.

Sources from the office of the former president Hamid Karzai said that the Taliban did not allow an Iranian delegation to meet him in Kabul.

Sources confirmed to Afghanistan International that the Taliban has imposed new restrictions on former president Hamid Karzai’s meetings with Taliban officials, foreign ambassadors, the public, and his visits inside and abroad Afghanistan.

Abdul Salam Hanafi, the Taliban’s deputy prime minister, said that the group’s fighters could have engaged in revenge killings as soon as the takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021.

Anwaar Ul Haq Kakar, Pakistan’s interim prime minister, said that the weapons leftover by the United States in Afghanistan are being used against Pakistan, China, Iran, and other countries in the region.